Mentors

The mentors of The Gathering 2009 are skilled creative people who are available to help you within their fields of expertise. Mentors in the fields of programming, graphics and music production will be available in the Creative Workshop between 12:00 and 24:00 every day. They can give you assistance on your own level, whether you are a beginner or already quite skilled yourself. Talking to the mentors can also be a nice way to get introduced to the creative scene at The Gathering.

Meet the Mentors

Graphics

Zeila aka Mia Aasbakken (21)

Demoscene groups: bitFlavour
Occupation: Student (Computer science, NTNU)
Field of expertise: Photoshop, digital painting, photography
Can also help with: Java, C++, 3ds max, Webdesign

Workshop Shift: Wednesday 18-24
Email: zeila@bitflavour.net
IRC: Zeila on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: www.bitflavour.net
cyasuey aka Mathias Tangen Leganger (20)

Demoscene groups: Illuminatics
Occupation: Student (Economics, NTNU)
Field of expertise: Maya, ZBrush, 3D character design
Can also help with: Java, Photoshop, Mudbox

Workshop Shift: Thursday 18-24
Email: cyasuey@gmail.com
IRC: cyasuey on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Webpage: cyasuey.com
wic aka Wictoria Nordgård (21)

Demoscene groups: none
Occupation: Student (Japanese, UiO)
Field of expertise: Photoshop, digital painting, photography
Can also help with: Graphical design, manga drawing, japanese

Workshop Shift: Friday 12-18
Email: wictoriabenno@yahoo.com
IRC: N/A
Webpage: N/A
marilla aka Marte Svalastoga (20)

Demoscene groups: none
Occupation: Student (Information science, UiO)
Field of expertise: Photoshop, digital painting, photo manipulation.
Can also help with: Web design, HTML, CSS

Workshop Shift: When present
Email: N/A
IRC: marilla on #tg, EFnet
Webpage: N/A
St.Genius aka Sjur Mathisen (33)

Demoscene groups: PlayPsyCo
Occupation: ?
Field of expertise: 3D Modelling, Lightwave
Can also help with: Photoshop

Workshop Shift: Friday 18-24
Email: stgenius@gmail.com
IRC: N/A
Webpage: N/A
Menelya aka Therese Hansen (23)

Demoscene groups: none
Occupation: Graphics designer
Field of expertise: InDesign, Illustrator, digital painting
Can also help with: Graphical design, webdesign

Workshop Shift: When present
Email: menelya@menelya.net
IRC: Menelya on #tg-creativia, #tg and #kreativia.no, EFnet
Webpage: www.menelya.net
amaya aka Beate Hay Sandmo (23)

Demoscene groups: none
Occupation: Student (KDC)
Field of expertise: Graphical design, Photoshop, digital painting, Illustrator, InDesign
Can also help with: Web design, Flash, Photography

Workshop Shift: Sat 12-18
Email: amaya86@gmail.com
IRC: N/A
Webpage: N/A

Programming

datsua aka Thomas Austad (35)

Demoscene groups: PlayPsyCo
Occupation: Graphics Driver Developer (ARM Norway)
Field of expertise: C/C++, OpenGL, GLSL, OpenVG, Software Rendering, 64k Programming
Can also help with: Smalltalk, LISP, PASCAL, Guitars, x86 assembly, PHP

Workshop Shift: Friday 18-24
Email: datsua@gmail.com
IRC: datsua on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: playpsyco.com
Duckers aka Anders Lassen (23)

Demoscene groups: Outracks
Occupation: Student (Economics, NTNU)
Field of expertise: C/C++, OpenGL, Direct3D, Frontend
Can also help with: Photoshop, 3ds max, Reason

Workshop Shift: When present (Crew)
Email: duckers@outracks.net
IRC: Duckers on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: outracks.net
Neuratix aka Lorents Gravås (19)

Demoscene groups: Nazareth Creations
Occupation: Student (Information science, NTNU)
Field of expertise: C/C++, OpenGL, Frontend
Can also help with: Gimp, tracked music

Workshop Shift: Thursday 12-18
Email: ostostost@gmail.com
IRC: Neuratix on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: N/A
mortzERR aka Morten Daniel Fornes (21)

Demoscene groups: Nazareth Creations
Occupation: Student (Computer science, HiST)
Field of expertise: C/C++, OpenGL, Frontend
Can also help with: Photoshop, PHP

Workshop Shift: Wednesday 18-24
Email: N/A
IRC: mortzLEIF on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: N/A
DigitalError aka Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen (25)

Demoscene groups: Dark Codex Crew
Occupation: Solution Developer (Avande)
Field of expertise: C/C++, C#, OpenGL, DirectX, XNA
Can also help with: Shader programming, silverlight, math

Workshop Shift: Friday 12-18
Email: petriw@gmail.com
IRC: digierr on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: digierr.spaces.live.com

Music

lug00ber aka Ola Christian Gundelsby (28)

Demoscene groups: kvasigen, spaceballs, boozoholics
Occupation: Web developer
Field of expertise: Music production
Can also help with: XHTML/CSS/XSLT

Workshop Shift: Thursday 18-24
Email: g00ber@start.no
IRC: baltium on #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: lug00ber.m0f0.net/demoscene/
Kaktusen//Miu aka Magnus Sørlie (27)

Demoscene groups: PlayPsyCo
Occupation: Multimedia producer
Field of expertise: Music and sound production
Can also help with: Business relations, systems development and administration

Workshop Shift: Wednesday 18-24, Friday 18-24
Email: booking@miu-music.com
IRC: N/A
Website: www.miu-music.com
Flipside aka Alexander Odden (26)

Demoscene groups: Quazim, bitFlavour, Nazareth
Occupation: Music producer/remixer
Field of expertise: Music production, pro tools, logic, sound design, synthesizers
Can also help with: 3D modelling

Workshop Shift: Thursday 12-18
Email: flipside@ono.no
IRC: N/A
Website: www.flipsideremix.com
irvin aka Ivar Kvalvik (25)

Demoscene groups: Outracks
Occupation: Sound Engineer
Field of expertise: Music production, field recording, audio post-produciton
Can also help with: Pro Tools, Logic, Reason

Workshop Shift: Friday 12-18
Email: spam@oggcar.com
IRC: irvin on #scene.no, EFnet
Website: N/A
gloom aka Bent Stamnes (31)

Demoscene groups: Excess (part-time: Portal Process, Andromeda, Still, XPLSV)
Occupation: Company manager
Field of expertise: Music production
Can also help with: Syncing, editing, Photoshop, cameras, in essence: making your demo suck less.

Workshop Shift: Saturday 12-18
Email: gloom@scene.org
IRC: N/A
Website: http://www.transistorbass.com/

Other

menace aka Glenn Lunder (35)

Demoscene groups: Spaceballs, Boozoholics, Keyboarders
Occupation: ISP employee (Romerike Bredbånd AS)
Field of expertise: Organizing (groups and parties), outreach, demoscene history
Can also help with: Retro platforms

Workshop Shift: When present
Email: glenn@romerikebb.no
IRC: menacespb on #scene.no, #tg-creativia, EFnet
Website: www.bitfellas.org

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